Going for the Goal!

This month was a whirlwind of excitement and fun for the Room 21 Rockstars!

We were excited to follow up our Olympic Lunches with Paralympic Lunches and cheer on both Team USA and Team Canada! Especially all of our ridiculously talented and dedicated Classroom Champions mentors.

We welcomed #AlexRigsby as our new mentor and even gave her a tour of our classroom and then dove right in to the challenge!

The kiddos were super stoked to start setting goals for themselves.  It was a challenge at first to convey the message that our goals need to be specific...when we say Dream BIG, these kids do.  A few of them set a few lofty goals and we had a lot of conversations about how to be a bit more specific and realistic.  Once we had that down, we created our long term goal and then our 3 short term goals that will help us get there.

We figured since Alex is a hockey player, why not be punny (We LOVE puns!) and go for the GOAL'd! So I used my epic photog skills and took their pics and they very carefully and with the giggles a'plenty, affixed their heads to a copy of Alex's CC pic! They then wrote their goals on hockey pucks and we placed them on our cabinet.  I am not kidding when I say that these kiddos talk about their goals every single day! I am blown away by their desire and want to meet and SHATTER these goals!

As a culminating activity, I went to the trusty ol' Google Classroom and created a couple of assignments.  They watched Alex's video on their own, took notes (note taking skills yo!), and wrote a small blurb about their knowledge of goal setting and what it means to them!  You can see a few, some didn't meet the deadline, of their thoughts in our class created Google Slideshow!  Ain't technology grand?

Goal Setting Slideshow 

So I am looking forward to seeing just what these kiddos accomplish.  They are really working on living a much more "Growth Mindset" type of life and watching unfold is surely going to be an Olympic moment in my book!  See you next month!